Nominations: Monday, 22 November 1880, Polling: Monday, 29 November 1880
Candidate
Votes
Votes %
Maclean, G R
472
45.69
Murray, Richard Lennon (Elected)
561
54.31
Formal Votes
1,033
Informal Votes
37
3.46
Total Votes / Turnout
1,070
60.01
Persons Voting / Turnout
1,070
60.01
Notes: This is a derived result using the total of formal and informal votes from the Statistical register, and the reported majority of 89 votes.
Source: Final totals could not be found. Both the SMH and Town and Country Journal election summaries had totals of 264 / 225, clearly incomplete results. Report in SMH 2 December refers to a majority of 99, as does the Daily Telegraph, 2 December p.8 col.1, though neither provides a final total of votes for each candidate. Armidale Express 10 December, p.3 col.6, quotes from the local Inverell newspaper that the final majority was 89 votes, the margin used to calculate the result used here. The Glen Innes Examiner did not provide a result, and no Inverell papers of the period exist in the NSW State Library collection.